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Thoreau, Henry David
from Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
(2015-2-27 16:10)
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Henry David Thoreau (18171862) The American author Henry David Thoreau is best known for his magnum opus Walden, or Life in the Woods (1854); second to this in popularity is his essay, “Resistance to Civil Government” (1849), which was later republished posthumously as “Civil Disobedience” (1866). His fame largely rests on his role as a … Continue reading Thoreau, Henry David →
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Implicit Bias
from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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[New Entry by Michael Brownstein on February 26, 2015.]
"Implicit bias" is a term of art referring to relatively unconscious and relatively automatic features of prejudiced judgment and social behavior. While psychologists in the field of "implicit social cognition" study "implicit attitudes" toward consumer products, self-esteem, food, alcohol, political values, and more, the most striking and well-known research has focused on implicit attitudes toward members of socially stigmatized groups, such as African-Americans, women, and the LGBTQ community.[1] For...
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Compatibilism
from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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[Revised entry by Michael McKenna and D. Justin Coates on February 25, 2015.
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Compatibilism offers a solution to the free will problem, which concerns a disputed incompatibility between free will and determinism. Compatibilism is the thesis that free will is compatible with determinism. Because free will is typically taken to be a necessary condition of moral responsibility, compatibilism is sometimes expressed as a thesis about the compatibility between moral responsibility and determinism....
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Intersections Between Pragmatist and Continental Feminism
from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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[Revised entry by Shannon Sullivan on February 24, 2015.
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Given the occasional confusion of the colloquial and the philosophical senses of the term "pragmatism" and the slipperiness of the term "continental" (or "postmodern") philosophy, a word about the two fields is in order before turning to feminist approaches to their intersections. The so-called classical period of American philosophy, best known for its creation of American pragmatism, was developed in the United States...
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Chauncey Wright
from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
(2015-2-25 7:32)
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[Revised entry by Jean De Groot on February 24, 2015.
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Chauncey Wright was an American philosopher of science of the second half of the nineteenth century and an early proponent of Darwinism in the United States. Sometimes cited as a founder of pragmatism, he is more appropriately remembered as an original thinker in the tradition of David Hume and John Stuart Mill.[1] Wright's primary interest and originality lay in philosophy of...
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Filial Obligation
from Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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Filial Obligation The question of what one should do for one’s parents is often urgent; a parent needs care in the near future, and the grown child must decide what kind of care to provide, whether and to what extent to finance the provision of care, and to what extent the child ought to sacrifice … Continue reading Filial Obligation →
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Indispensability Arguments in the Philosophy of Mathematics
from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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[Revised entry by Mark Colyvan on February 23, 2015.
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One of the most intriguing features of mathematics is its applicability to empirical science. Every branch of science draws upon large and often diverse portions of mathematics, from the use of Hilbert spaces in quantum mechanics to the use of differential geometry in general relativity. It's not just the physical sciences that avail themselves of the services of mathematics either. Biology, for instance, makes extensive use of difference equations and...
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The Philosophy of Digital Art
from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
(2015-2-24 14:19)
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[New Entry by Katherine Thomson-Jones on February 23, 2015.]
First and foremost, the philosophy of digital art is the study of the nature and appreciative grounds of all those kinds of art whose production and presentation crucially involves computer processing. This first-order inquiry cannot proceed without acknowledgment of claims made by media and cultural theorists, art theorists and art audiences, concerning the way digital image- and sound-making technologies are fundamentally changing our understanding of art, representation, and perceptual experience. These claims suggest that the "digital condition" induces a loss of trust in the...
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Abraham Ibn Daud
from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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[Revised entry by Resianne Fontaine on February 23, 2015.
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Abraham ibn Daud (c.1110 - 1180) can be regarded as a pioneer in Jewish philosophy. His philosophical treatise ha-Emunah ha-Ramah (The Exalted Faith, c. 1160) constitutes the first systematic attempt to integrate Aristotelianism into Jewish thought. However, only a few decades later Moses Maimonides, the medieval Jewish philosopher par excellence, wrote his philosophical magnum opus, Moreh Nevukhim (The Guide of the Perplexed), a work...
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Terrorism
from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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[Revised entry by Igor Primoratz on February 23, 2015.
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Before the terrorist attacks in the United States on 11 September 2001, the subject of terrorism did not loom large in philosophical discussion. Philosophical literature in English amounted to a few monographs and a single collection of papers devoted solely, or largely, to questions to do with terrorism. Articles on the subject in philosophy journals were few and far between; neither of the two major philosophy encyclopedias had an entry. The attacks of September 11 and...
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